Tag: 2011
CHICKEN WITH PLUMS
Set in Tehran in 1958 (when the Shah was on the throne of what was still known as Persia) Nasser Ali Khan an obsessive and brilliant musician is driven to suicidal despair when his wife smashes up his irreplaceable violin in a fit of (justified) pique. He very melodramatically takes to his bed for 8…
The Wishmakers
This low-budget romantic comedy is about three college friends who spend a summer living together in West Hollywood. Two of them are openly gay, while the third, whilst the third who is obviously a big old queen, claims to be a bi-sexual. They all throw a penny into a fountain and make a wish for what…
GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR
There is actually more than one girl in this group of apparent strangers who walk into 10 different Bars over the course of one night in Los Angeles. In each bar there is a different story that sometimes has a tenuous link to the others in this engaging and somewhat fascinating movie. The pace starts…
Queerguru reviews’ James Franco’s THE BROKEN TOWER
This is an obscure and difficult-to-watch movie about an obscure and difficult-to-read poet. It’s the brief life of Hart Crane a poet and writer well-regarded by his peers but who was one very unhappy homosexual who took his own life in 1932 when he was a mere 33 years old. In his short career…
The Love Patient
I have no idea why I chose to watch this intensely irritating comedy when I found the whole premise of the story so offensive. Maybe just like the movie’s protagonist I am pretty and shallow too and was simply wooed by the images of hunky half naked men on the DVD cover, either way it…
